Bug#1037425: linux-kbuild-6.1: please add Breaks against obsolete *-dkms packages
Control: reassign -1 src:linux
Control: severity -1 important
On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 05:31:53PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> As a consequence, if cruft *-dkms packages are still installed, but fail
> to build the module for current kernels, this may result in upgrade
> failures. Therefore please add Breaks against cruft *-dkms packages that
> may be left over from previous releases to ensure they get removed.
> I chose linux-kbuild-6.1 for the addition of these Breaks since all
> linux-headers-* packages depend on that.
And why not at dkms? And how does this help in the long term, as every
kernel release breaks modules?
Bastian
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